I just finished reading Peter Seibel’s new book, Coders at Work.
I was a bit skeptical at first. I only picked the book because of the big names on the cover and because Peter Siebel’s Practical Common Lisp is one of my favourite books on learn-a-new-programming-language. I thought that a book filled only with interviews with […]
Wired has a very interesting piece on how the Duke Nukem Forever project failed. It’s not only relevant because DNF is part of the nerd culture but also because it is a very interesting tale about a company that could not achieve a reasonable Definition of Done (DoD).
In software development we often talk about Done […]
As I said here before I was in Brazil some weeks ago to present at a conference. I had a really great time over there with some amazing people and would like to thank Caelum for their hard work in creating such a great conference. I’m making the slide deck and notes available in my […]
As I said here earlied this year, next month I will be presenting in a conference called Caelum Day. This will be held in Rio de Janeiro, my home town, and I’m really excited to be there.
My presentation will be a keynote on the role of a Tech Lead and what I wish I knew […]
After so many years I thought that this was a dead topic but recently I saw at least two reasonably experienced developers having trouble with object identity and thought that it would be good to write about it.
Most languages define some kind of equality operator on objects, in Java, for example, that is the equals […]
As a consultant I have to log my hours in a timesheet application. This could be a test inside the timesheet app:
[TestFixture]
public class BillableTimeTest
{
[Test]
public void ShouldhaveCorrectNumberOfWorkedHours()
[…]
Regardless of what kind of team you have, it is a given that if you keep the wrong focus you are going to be in some kind of trouble. It is very important for a team to have a clear understanding of the project’s goals and constraints. That sounds like PM-speak but it’s not only […]
In ThoughtWorks we get together at least once an year for a whole weekend to drink beer and do whatever people consider interesting. This year’s ThoughtWorks Australia Away Day (AKA Team Hug) was somewhere in Victoria and among other activities (and a bus crash) we had technical sessions.
I used one of those slots to do […]
I just finished reading Real World Haskell. This was my first book on Haskell, I’ve read only articles and papers before and I believe it was a very good introduction to the language.
The book tries to use real world problems and I feel like it is not very successful as it. The examples focus too […]
Nick showed me this today. My favourite part:
At a workshop once, Pete McBreen said “The Agile methods are methods created by people who like to program.” While that’s not entirely true, we bet it’s more true of that particular bunch of people than of any previous gaggle of methodologists. And their oddity went even further: […]
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